Moon over Soho timeline

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So I’ve been listening to the Moon over Soho audiobook and trying to work out a timeline (largely in an effort to pin down things about Lesley, which was mostly not helpful) and, wow, I hadn’t realised how short a period it takes place over. The months-long timelines of Rivers of London and Broken Homes lulled me into a false sense of security, but the bulk of the action in MoS takes place over ten days - everything but the very last scene happens over less than three weeks. Also, Peter must have been extremely sleep-deprived by the end of it.

Anyway, since I bothered to work all this out, here it is for posterity/speculation/fanfic purposes:

( The timeline )

Some implications of all this:

- I think if Nightingale hadn’t been sick and Lesley away, someone would have spotted something weird about Peter and Simone earlier. They spend an awful lot of time shagging for two people who live apart and have jobs, and Peter is under a great deal of time pressure in this two-week period. It’s quite possible his failure to connect her to the case is a result not just of magic but sheer sleep deprivation. Either way, it was definitely way too early to be introducing her to his parents - he knew her for two weeks total, and they’d only been in a relationship for a week by the time of the gig at the Arches, ten days if you want to count from the date at the patisserie. When Peter speculates on the possible length of the relationship it’s only been five days since it started.

- Lesley learns magic suprisingly fast; depending upon exactly when that “cold day in October” she demonstrates it to Peter is, she managed to conjure a werelight in something between three and six weeks, and it took Peter six. This makes me a little concerned for her brain - did Peter mention the restrictions on practicing to her? Would she have followed them if she did?

- Looking back at it I’m also surprised how sick Nightingale is throughout this - he’s still in a wheelchair in the early part of the book, but it’s been four months since he was shot. I have no idea whatsoever how fast this is as a recovery time but it seems slow (of course, in the latter part he contracts a chest infection.)

- The Faceless Man moves fast; he’s already looking for Simone and her sisters as of Day 6, Peter’s first visit to Smith, and he’s murdered Smith by Day 10 and is trying very hard to recruit Simone et al. by Day 15. The question I have is how he was tracking them down - does he have access to HOLMES? Did someone else notice them not aging in Soho? Peter is put onto the case by Dr. Walid noticing vestigium on Cyrus Wilkinson’s body, then a statistical pattern emerging…how did the Faceless Man figure it out?

- I’m surprised the DPS haven’t just demanded Peter be fired by now; in one week he’s involved in, count ‘em, six suspicious deaths (the Pale Lady, Alexander Smith, Tiger Boy, Simone, Cherie, and Peggy) and the week before that he hijacked an ambulance. And that’s after the Covent Garden fiasco. He must give them hives. (Then again, I bet Nightingale’s had more than his fair share of DPS attention over the years, when he was the only active member of the Folly.)